Cuba is the poorest country in Latin America

Cuba is thepoorest country in Latin America, according to the firm DatoWorld, a renowned international electoral observatory.

The country presents a 72% poverty rate and that alarming number places it at the forefront of the countries in the Latin American region, as revealed this Thursday on the official Twitter account ofDatoWorld.

In the information provided by the prestigious company that provides electoral monitoring to governments in the world through surveys, political trends and electoral coverage, Venezuela is the second country with the highest poverty rate in Latin America and Honduras is the third.

HePoverty Indexof DatoWorld, which takes into account a series of statistical parameters in order to measure the standard of living of nations, has as its source in Cuba theCuban Observatory of Human Rights (OCDH).

Among the aspects they evaluate, they include theper capita current income, the average educational gap at home, access toHealth services, to social security,feeding, the quality and spaces of the home, the degree of social cohesion and accessibility to paved roads.

Cuba, to which poor countries in the region have had to donate food, medicines and medical supplies in recent years, is facing more and more problems in meeting the basic parameters for its population.

The crisis in the health system has driven people to desperation and access to food is an increasingly serious problem amid one of the highest inflations in the world.

All this, furthermore, in the midst of constant repressions by the regime that seeks to silence those who oppose its unilateral system.

The Cuban Observatory of Human Rights assured last year that the majority of Cuba's inhabitants live below the poverty line.

In a report, it showed that more than 72% of Cubans live inpoverty conditionsand only 14% expect their personal situation to improve in the near future.

According to what they stated, 55% of Cuban households receive less than 100 dollars a month. This places the majority of citizens below the poverty line according to World Bank standards, which places them at an income of $1.90 dollars a day.

One dollar in Cuba, in the official currency exchange market, costs 123.60 pesos and the minimum wage is 2,100 CUP, so millions of people live on the island with incomes that do not exceed 20 dollars per month.

Last year, in addition, Cuba was classified as the country with the most miserable economy in the world, according to the Annual Index prepared by American economist Steve H. Hanke, professor at Johns Hopkins University.

The island was the best-positioned country in Latin America in the 2020 ranking, but suffered a sharp drop due to inflation of 1,221.8 percent in 2021.